Kenneth P Oakley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 113569 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth P Oakley |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth P |
| SOBRENOME | Oakley |
| ASSINATURA | OAKLEY K P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | British Museum |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 374 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1933 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Relative and absolute dating of the human skull and skeleton from Galley Hill, Kent
Notes on Palaeolithic Flakes from Ilford
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A Reappraisal of the Clacton Spearpoint
The wooden artifact widely known as the Clacton Spear (pl. 1) was discovered by Samuel Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in 1911. He dug it out of an undisturbed part of the freshwater sediments, probably a peaty seam, exposed on the foreshore at Clacton-on-Sea, c . 80 km ENE of London (Warren 1911; 1914, and in conversation with K.P.O. 1933). On 30th September 1911, Warren conducted a party of members of the Essex Field Club on a visit to see the outcr…
The Piltdown problem reconsidered
Originally there were two main points of controversy about Piltdown. Did the Piltdown cranium and the Piltdown jaw-bone (mandible) represent one creature, 'Eoanthropus' as Smith Woodward inferred; or did they belong to two creatures, the cranium that of a man and the jaw-bone that of an ape, as David Waterston, Gerrit Miller and A. T. Marston believed? The second point of controversy concerned the antiquity of the specimens
A reconsideration of the date of the Kanam jaw
Revised dating of the Kanjera hominids
Thermoluminescent Dating of Fired Rock‐crystal From Bellan Bandi Palassa, Ceylon
S Fired rock‐crystal was found within the matrix of a Balangodese (pre‐Vedda) burial in a Mesolithic midden in Ceylon; thermoluminescent measurements indicated a date of about 7000 years before present
The Diopet of Ephesus
IN the Aegean world in the days of classical antiquity there were numerous holy stones known as baetyli, each of which was attached to the cult of a god, most commonly Zeus. In some cases the baetylus was regarded as the abiding place of the god or, as one might say, it was an aspect of the god. The most renowned example is the holy stone known as the omphalus in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the centre of the …
Pliocene Men
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An Early Bronze Age Potter's Workshop in Crete
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Man the Skilled Tool-maker
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An Appreciation of Dr. Robert Broom, F.R.S
Rhodesian Man
The femur fragment described here was found in the deep cave in No. i Kopje, Broken Hill, on June i8 I92I. In I938 the late Captain A. W. Whittington of Bulawayo informed me that the femur had been found by his wife' the day after Mr T. Zwigelaar had found the nearly complete skull of Homo rhodesiensis. On the afternoon following this now famous discovery it seems that Mrs Whittington was lowered on a rope into the cavity opened up at the lower e…
The Date of the 'Red Lady' of Paviland
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Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Folklore of Fossils Part II
There are several kinds of fossil sea-urchin that are the subject of folklore, the commonest in the south of England being casts in flint, derived from the Chalk, of the heart-urchinMicraster, and of the helmet-urchinEchinocorys. Both of these, but more commonly the latter, are known to the country people as shepherd's crowns or fairy loaves (PL. xxib). Formerly at least, the Essex labourer believed that so long as one of these fossil sea-urchins…
Folklore of Fossils Part I
Culture includes not only the material products of a human society, but also its non-productive acts and practices. Yet it is these of which we can know so little in regard to prehistoric peoples. However, there is one class of natural objects which, although as a general rule having no obvious practical value, have been noticed, picked up and evidently regarded with some interest since the earliest times: fossils. Certain types of fossil have at…
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
The Antiquity of the New Kom Ombo Skull
Mesolithic Men in Britain
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Bone Harpoon from Gamble's Cave, Kenya
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Age of the Skeleton from the Lagow Sand Pit, Texas
Measurements of the fluorine, uranium, and nitrogen content of a representative series of bones from Lagow and neighboring terrain show that while the human skeleton from the Lagow Sand Pit is not modern, it cannot be assigned an antiquity equivalent to that of the Lewisville Pleistocene fauna at the site
Ancient Preserved Brains
Dating the past.
A Reappraisal of the Clacton Spearpoint
The wooden artifact widely known as the Clacton Spear (pl. 1) was discovered by Samuel Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in 1911. He dug it out of an undisturbed part of the freshwater sediments, probably a peaty seam, exposed on the foreshore at Clacton-on-Sea, c . 80 km ENE of London (Warren 1911; 1914, and in conversation with K.P.O. 1933). On 30th September 1911, Warren conducted a party of members of the Essex Field Club on a visit to see the outcr…
New Studies on Rhodesian Man
J. Desmond Clark, Kenneth P. Oakley, L. H. Wells, J. A. C. McClelland, New Studies on Rhodesian Man, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 77, No. 1 (1947), pp. 7-32
Fire as Palaeolithic Tool and Weapon
A number of recent discoveries have focused attention on questions relating to when and for what primary purposes fire was first used. The claim made in 1947 by Professor Raymond Dart (1952) that Australopithecus was a fire-user has been re-examined, but without confirmation. Briefly the relevant evidence is as follows. In 1925 Professor Dart received pieces of bone breccia which had been collected by Mr W. I. Eitzman at limeworks in the Makapans…
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Report on Excavations at Jaywick Sands, Essex (1934), with some observations on the Clactonian Industry, and on the Fauna and Geological significance of the Clacton Channel
The foreshore exposures of Pleistocene deposits at Clacton and at Lion Point, two miles to the south-west, mark cross-sections of an ancient river channel which now extends inland in a broad curve between these two localities. The deposits have become famous through the investigations of Mr S. Hazzledine Warren, who has for many years kept a careful watch on the exposures, and who has published a number of important papers on his discoveries (War…
Rhodesian Man
The femur fragment described here was found in the deep cave in No. i Kopje, Broken Hill, on June i8 I92I. In I938 the late Captain A. W. Whittington of Bulawayo informed me that the femur had been found by his wife' the day after Mr T. Zwigelaar had found the nearly complete skull of Homo rhodesiensis. On the afternoon following this now famous discovery it seems that Mrs Whittington was lowered on a rope into the cavity opened up at the lower e…
The piltdown fraud
Report on the Swanscombe Skull
M. A. C. Hinton, K. P. Oakley, H. G. Dines, W. B. R. King, A. S. Kennard, C. F. C. Hawkes, S. Hazzledine Warren, M. Aylwin Cotton, W. E. Le Gros Clark, G. M. Morant, Report on the Swanscombe Skull, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 68 (Jan. - Jun., 1938), pp. 17-98
Contributions on Trepanning or Trephination in Ancient and Modern Times
The Pleistocene Succession in the Lower parts of the Thames Valley
The object of the present communication is to demonstrate the relationships which, in the light of present knowledge, appear to exist between the various Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in the Lower and Middle Thames Valley. For this purpose two cross-sections of the valley have been drawn indicating the relative positions of the deposits which occur at various localities as though they were all present in two localities, one in the Lower, and …
The Palaeolithic Sequence at Iver, Bucks. With an Appendix on the Geology
References to palaeolithic implements from the Pleistocene deposits in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver have appeared from time to time in the Proceedings of learned societies. The British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Stone Age , 1926, p. 46, mentions artifacts from this district, where palaeoliths have been collected for nearly half a century, but a general summary has not been made showing the sequence of cultures and the significance o…
Folklore of Fossils Part II
There are several kinds of fossil sea-urchin that are the subject of folklore, the commonest in the south of England being casts in flint, derived from the Chalk, of the heart-urchinMicraster, and of the helmet-urchinEchinocorys. Both of these, but more commonly the latter, are known to the country people as shepherd's crowns or fairy loaves (PL. xxib). Formerly at least, the Essex labourer believed that so long as one of these fossil sea-urchins…
Bone Harpoon from Gamble's Cave, Kenya
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Folklore of Fossils Part I
Culture includes not only the material products of a human society, but also its non-productive acts and practices. Yet it is these of which we can know so little in regard to prehistoric peoples. However, there is one class of natural objects which, although as a general rule having no obvious practical value, have been noticed, picked up and evidently regarded with some interest since the earliest times: fossils. Certain types of fossil have at…
Dating of the Australopithecinae of Africa
Thermoluminescent Dating of Fired Rock‐crystal From Bellan Bandi Palassa, Ceylon
S Fired rock‐crystal was found within the matrix of a Balangodese (pre‐Vedda) burial in a Mesolithic midden in Ceylon; thermoluminescent measurements indicated a date of about 7000 years before present
The Date of the 'Red Lady' of Paviland
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Tools Makyth Man
Benjamin Franklin appears to have been the first to call Man the 'tool-making animal' while Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus (1833)declared : 'Without tools he is nothing.' In pre-Darwinian days the definition of Man was no more than philosophical exercise. That Man might have evolved from lower animals was in the minds of very few people in those days. Certainly the question of how to draw a boundary between pre-human and human had not yet beco…
Study Tour of Early Hominid Sites in Southern Africa, 1953
The Earliest Fire-makers
Flying across Africa to attend the Pan-African Congress on Prehistory in Livingstone in July of last year I was frequently reminded of how characteristic of man is his continual use of fire, not only in cities but in the primitive open spaces. There were few moments in the course of the whole journey when signs of fire or artificial light were not somewhere visible. As we passed over the sparsely inhabited bush and savannah country of south-centr…
Notes on Palaeolithic Flakes from Ilford
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An Early Bronze Age Potter's Workshop in Crete
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The Antiquity of the New Kom Ombo Skull
The antiquity of Galley Hill Man
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On the Ancient Channel between Caversham and Henley, Oxfordshire, and its contained Flint Implements
The wide depression which cuts across the loop of the Thames from Caversham to Henley and marks the course of a trench partly filled with gravel was constantly under observation by Mr Llewellyn Treacher for a number of years. Together with certain fragments of its possible continuation as far east as Winter Hill, north of Cookham Rise, it forms the subject of the present paper. This ancient channel leaves the Thames Valley at Mapledurham, the mid…
The Pottery from the Romano-British Site on Thundersbarrow Hill
The pottery described in the present paper is that found during the excavation of the site of a small Romano-British settlement on Thundersbarrow Hill in Sussex. The work was carried out by Dr. E. C. Curwen in the spring of 1932, and is described by him in the preceding paper
The Pleistocene Succession in the Lower parts of the Thames Valley
The object of the present communication is to demonstrate the relationships which, in the light of present knowledge, appear to exist between the various Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in the Lower and Middle Thames Valley. For this purpose two cross-sections of the valley have been drawn indicating the relative positions of the deposits which occur at various localities as though they were all present in two localities, one in the Lower, and …
The Palaeolithic Sequence at Iver, Bucks. With an Appendix on the Geology
References to palaeolithic implements from the Pleistocene deposits in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver have appeared from time to time in the Proceedings of learned societies. The British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Stone Age , 1926, p. 46, mentions artifacts from this district, where palaeoliths have been collected for nearly half a century, but a general summary has not been made showing the sequence of cultures and the significance o…
The Dawn of the Human Mind
The Dawn of the Human Mind: A study of Palaeolithic Man, by R. R. Schmidt, translated by R. A. S. Macalister: pp. XXIX, 256, 50 plates, 101 illustrations in the text. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. 1936. Price, 12s. 6d. - Volume 3 Issue 1-2
Report on Excavations at Jaywick Sands, Essex (1934), with some observations on the Clactonian Industry, and on the Fauna and Geological significance of the Clacton Channel
The foreshore exposures of Pleistocene deposits at Clacton and at Lion Point, two miles to the south-west, mark cross-sections of an ancient river channel which now extends inland in a broad curve between these two localities. The deposits have become famous through the investigations of Mr S. Hazzledine Warren, who has for many years kept a careful watch on the exposures, and who has published a number of important papers on his discoveries (War…
Report on the Swanscombe Skull
M. A. C. Hinton, K. P. Oakley, H. G. Dines, W. B. R. King, A. S. Kennard, C. F. C. Hawkes, S. Hazzledine Warren, M. Aylwin Cotton, W. E. Le Gros Clark, G. M. Morant, Report on the Swanscombe Skull, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 68 (Jan. - Jun., 1938), pp. 17-98
The Evidence for Ancient Mining
A Note on the Late Post-Glacial Submergence of the Solent Margins
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New Studies on Rhodesian Man
J. Desmond Clark, Kenneth P. Oakley, L. H. Wells, J. A. C. McClelland, New Studies on Rhodesian Man, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 77, No. 1 (1947), pp. 7-32
On the Ancient Channel between Caversham and Henley, Oxfordshire, and its contained Flint Implements
The wide depression which cuts across the loop of the Thames from Caversham to Henley and marks the course of a trench partly filled with gravel was constantly under observation by Mr Llewellyn Treacher for a number of years. Together with certain fragments of its possible continuation as far east as Winter Hill, north of Cookham Rise, it forms the subject of the present paper. This ancient channel leaves the Thames Valley at Mapledurham, the mid…
The antiquity of Galley Hill Man
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Three Important Guide-Books
New Evidence on the Antiquity of Piltdown Man
Fossils from Africa
Report on the Re-investigation of the Westley (Bury St. Edmunds) Skull Site
Fossil human remains which can be attributed to the Lower Palaeolithic period are so rare that it is important to investigate thoroughly all finds for which such claims have been made. Almost all the human skulls discovered in Pleistocene deposits in Britain have proved to belong to Homo sapiens . Where the deposits are older than Upper Palaeolithic it is more than likely that such remains are not contemporaneous but represent later intrusive bur…
The Dating of the Australopithecinae of Africa
Study Tour of Early Hominid Sites in Southern Africa, 1953
Early Man in Africa
Dating of the Australopithecinae of Africa
The piltdown fraud
The Earliest Tool-Makers
Fire as Palaeolithic Tool and Weapon
A number of recent discoveries have focused attention on questions relating to when and for what primary purposes fire was first used. The claim made in 1947 by Professor Raymond Dart (1952) that Australopithecus was a fire-user has been re-examined, but without confirmation. Briefly the relevant evidence is as follows. In 1925 Professor Dart received pieces of bone breccia which had been collected by Mr W. I. Eitzman at limeworks in the Makapans…
The Earliest Fire-makers
Flying across Africa to attend the Pan-African Congress on Prehistory in Livingstone in July of last year I was frequently reminded of how characteristic of man is his continual use of fire, not only in cities but in the primitive open spaces. There were few moments in the course of the whole journey when signs of fire or artificial light were not somewhere visible. As we passed over the sparsely inhabited bush and savannah country of south-centr…
The Earliest Tool-makers
Man has been defined in many ways, as the talking animal, the religious animal, and so on, but the most satisfactory definition from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. One might ask, why bother to define man, considering his uniqueness and self-evident characteristics? But from the standpoint of students of evolution, particularly those concerned with the interpretation of fossil remains of early man and his possible anc…
Stratigraphical age of the Swanscombe skull
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